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New Linux Version will Reduce Suspend/Resume times

posted by LaminatorX on Monday March 24 2014, @12:00AM   
from the Powwwaaaaahhhhh! dept.

janrinok writes:

From an ARS Technica story:

Linux 3.15, expected to be released in mid-2014, "will feature a large number of ACPI and power management updates" and allow Linux-based computers to suspend and resume faster, Phoronix reported today.

'Visible to users with the Linux 3.15 kernel should be reduced time for system suspend and resuming, thanks to the enabling of more asynchronous threads,' the article said, pointing to a list of changes posted by Rafael Wysocki, an Intel employee who maintains the Linux kernel's core power management code. Basic support for Nvidia's Maxwell architecture is also in the works for Linux 3.15.

• Specific to your hardware (Score: 2, Interesting) by kbahey on Monday March 24 2014, @01:27PM

  by kbahey (1147) on Monday March 24 2014, @01:27PM (#20355) Homepage

  This has to be specific to your hardware.

  We have two laptops running Kubuntu 12.04, and they suspend and resume reliably each and every time. This has been the case for years, and worked on 10.04 as well.

  Nothing special to configure suspend. I hit the power button and the laptop sleeps. I open the lid and it wakes up. Sometimes I need to hit the power button to wake it up if the lid open does not do it. Apart from that little glitch, it works extremely reliably.

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